Taylor Swift is one of the biggest musical acts in the world, obviously. Her fanbase reaches a global scale. She’s so big that she completely overshadowed a Thursday Night Football game with a teaser for her Midnight album and y’all know how folks get about their football.
Anyway, you get it. Taylor Swift. She’s a big deal. So one would naturally think that when she says she’s going on tour in 2023 that ticket sellers would prepare themselves for massive amounts of traffic from fans trying to get those tickets.
Especially considering that this is Swift’s first tour in 5 years. This is going to be a big deal to a lot of people. Any ticket seller would have to be ready for that, right?
Plot twist: That did not happen. In fact, it was the complete opposite.
Before the presale tickets could even go live on Ticketmaster the website was actually crashing. Ticketmaster apologized for the disruption and has things working again.
We are aware fans may be experiencing intermittent issues with the site and are urgently working to resolve.
— Ticketmaster Fan Support (@TMFanSupport) November 15, 2022
But now, fans are stuck in long queues and sitting in the same virtual spaces for lengthy periods of time.
Basically, the Taylor Swift corner of the internet is in absolute shambles right now.
when you're trying to get taylor swift tix but ticketmaster keeps crashing pic.twitter.com/FOSdMrIP2Y
— Meg (@mplevz) November 15, 2022
Me waiting in the paused Taylor Swift Ticketmaster queue for OVER AN HOUR: pic.twitter.com/hzVWrgOcok
— Lauren (@Laurparkerr) November 15, 2022
Live footage of me in the Ticketmaster Taylor swift presale queue: pic.twitter.com/7CpRMAItwk
— Lauren (@Laurparkerr) November 15, 2022
ticketmaster queue just paused we’re going DOWN swifties pic.twitter.com/RCIQNoavyl
— molly (@guacamoIly) November 15, 2022
Go on do something #TSTheErasTour#Ticketmaster pic.twitter.com/7oNIVKomUY
— Bekah ✨ (@bekah_ledbetter) November 15, 2022
them: “i got selected for presale for taylor swift!”
me waiting for ticketmaster to come thru: pic.twitter.com/pQvLI2VTDH— lexiii (@alexisblmiller_) November 14, 2022
ticketmaster trying to fix this god awful website rn pic.twitter.com/Rnapy7I7IT
— Lyndsey 🕰| fan account (@wisteriawillows) November 15, 2022
Being stuck in the ticketmaster queue really has you wondering how different your life you be if you never listened to Our Song on the radio in 2006 that one time
— ava (@avesstwt) November 15, 2022
Them: “I got my Taylor swift presale code at 1:30pm today”
me to to Ticketmaster at 6:32pm: pic.twitter.com/uOPg0mHd1G
— Amber McKinney (@amber_bowman) November 14, 2022
Imagine having the world’s largest musical artist and her entire fan base mad at you at the same time. In the middle of this economy. Basically throwing money at you and you literally fumble the bag. #Ticketmaster pic.twitter.com/M7kS2VK8RO
— Samantha S. Stratton (@SomehowSamantha) November 15, 2022
what is joe biden’s plan to unpause the ticketmaster queue for taylor swift’s eras tour
— kay (@slutforfeelings) November 15, 2022
taylor swift walking onto stage with no one in the audience, because that ticketmaster queue never did move. pic.twitter.com/BEjNEB1G6N
— sarah 🕰 (@thisismenotryin) November 15, 2022
8 billion people in the world and every single one of them is ahead of me in the taylor swift ticketmaster queue apparently
— shawty lynn 🧣 (@HereComesShawty) November 15, 2022
when taylor swift wrote “the great war” she was actually preparing us for the Battle of Ticketmaster. her mind!
— ellie schnitt (@holy_schnitt) November 15, 2022
ticketmaster is like “we’re sorry about all the technical problems, this demand was unexpected” as if taylor swift isn’t one of the biggest artists in the galaxy
— jessica (@enchantedjess13) November 15, 2022
If Chick Fil A was in charge of the Ticketmaster queue I would’ve had Taylor Swift tickets within MINUTES just saying
— Lauren (@Laurparkerr) November 15, 2022
Good luck, Swifties. Clearly, you need a lot of it.
